DAY 1- I have a situation I can not figure out on my 2000 Mexibeetle. I am not getting power to the fuel pump after replacing the battery. The relay is not getting power from the alarm (immobilizer) even though I have inserted the security key before attempting start up. Is there a "sequence" of things I should have done after installing the new battery? Everything else seems to be working perfectly I just can't get the alarm system to send power to the fuel pump relay. DAY 2- I have narrowed the problem down to no ground coming to the fuel pump relay from the alarm relay in the fuse box. I can ground the fuel pump relay to get it to kick in and the pump (and car) runs fine. The ground should be coming from terminal 8A on the alarm relay. I guess I will have to pull the fuse box to figure out when the ground is suppose to come from that feeds the relay to determine if the relay is the problem or if the ground is not getting to the relay to start with. Is there any problem with me grounding the fuel pump relay with a "temporary" wire until I can get this all figured out? If the only thing the alarm normally does is prevent the ground in the fuel pump relay circuit then I don't see this temporary fix causing any problem but I don't want to screw anything up.
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19 years ago